Agenda setting of the work of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 20
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The mandate found that in certain regions, trafficked children, like adults, are often obliged or induced by their traffickers and exploiters to commit crimes, inter alia, pickpocketing, burglary, and drug cultivation and transportation. In spite of non-punishment clauses in regional and international legal instruments, the children are often then prosecuted, imprisoned and/or deported for the illegal activities they have carried out as a direct consequence of their situation as trafficked persons, instead of being considered as victims of trafficking.
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children